Smash And Grab Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area has had many smash and grab events recently. The comparable crimes are parabolic in number compared to just months ago. Apple stores get much of the media attention. But the mostly African American smashers and grabbers also take time to knock off pumpkin sellers at road side in a recent example. Maybe they were stuck in traffic on way to an Apple store and wanted to make the most of profitably for that days totals. Cant see much profit in grabbing a pumpkin and some loose change and few folding bills in the till. But I think money isn't the entire reason for this barbaric behavior. Looks to me the wild monkeys like the exhilaration of destroying and stealing others property. The implications are they can't tolerate a steady job and don't respect private property.Looks to me their future if they last that long will be for them to choose to become feral street people. Then they can retire with the help of the various homeless outreach programs in the Bay Area. These apes remind me of Alex in Clockwork Orange.Alex was a white monkey. Monkey see monkey do.

George Bush: A Clockwork President

Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel ( also Stanley Kubrick film) titled " A Clockwork Orange" has an anti-hero that resembles our President George Bush. Burgess wrote in the introduction," that a creature who can only perform good or evil is a clockwork orange. That it has the appearance of an organism -lovely with color and juice but is in fact only a clockwork to be wound up by God or the Devil for an almighty state".

And so Bush resembles Alex de Large. Alex has trouble with the truth and can't play it straight. He wont take instruction feels constrained and misunderstood if he's popular. Also Alex enjoys "ultra-violence". Burgess writes about a creature who lacks the human touch and sensitivity that follows from nuanced thinking.And so our President " doesn't do nuanced" and semi-shouts " bring'em on". And at the press conference yesterday continues to deny the tragic reality of the Iraq War.

We may end up needing a straight-jacket for this moron and a kind of " Ludovico Process" to try to get him right.